LISC/Chicago’s New Communities Program reports that the project should break ground later this year or in 2011 with one significant change in place — instead of condos, it will feature apartments. According to LISC’s article, the project’s first phase will have 70 residential units and about 28,000 square feet of retail, while a second phase will have another 70 units and 20,000 square feet of retail. A parking level on the second floor of each building will buffer the ground-level retail from the upper-level residences.

They broke ground and the place is halfway up after only 4 months of breaking ground. These places are built up so fast but they are sturdy. I hope and pray CHA actually rent these units out to low income people. We have enough market rate rentals here in this expensive city we call Chicago.